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24. The Mob Doctor (Fox)

We had high hopes for The Mob Doctor. With the oversaturation of medical dramas on television, it seemed promising that the Fox series mixed things up a bit by adding touches of The Sopranos into a familiar emergency room premise. The likable Jordana Spiro plays Grace Devlin, a successful surgeon who uses her hospital paychecks to help her brother clear a large gambling debt with angry Mafia members. Doesn't sound half bad, right?

Instead of focusing on that streamlined plot, The Mob Doctor became a patient-of-the-week lark, finding Grace helping out a different gangster in each episode. One week, she has to tend to a convict who wants to give his young daughter his heart; the next, her mob boss mentor (William Forsythe) wants her to oversee a pregnancy so he can give the baby to some Canadian couple.

It's a good thing The Mob Doctor is a wrap: Eventually, Grace would've been stuck resuscitating a fat Gambino who choked on his spaghetti.